Name: Was Silk Road Founder Framed for Murder By Corrupt Cops?
Uploaded: 2021-03-03T18:07:37.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Was Silk Road Founder Framed for Murder By Corrupt Cops?' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-03. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Was Silk Road Founder Framed for Murder By Corrupt Cops?' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-03. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience and nobody quite knows okay who is it that inherited
it and there are
those people who say hey this wasn't Ross that ordered these hits you know this
was like nobody
knows who's behind the keys at the time anything has happened so there are
those people who who
completely deny you know his family completely denies the culpability and who
knows we'll never
know that is a problem when you're dealing with corrupt cops too right like
they literally could
have faked him doing that we don't know what has he denied that he called hits
look we should explain
to people that haven't seen the film spoiler alert it goes off the rails for
Ross for young Ross and
at one point in time one of his the guy he's working with gets busted and rats
him out and then the cops
are using that guy's account and communicating with him and he orders a hit on
that guy and the guy gets
to see it and it's like holy shit I can't believe this who knows how much of
that is real and how much
is not but the problem is you're dealing with corrupt cops and if the corrupt
cops wanted to frame him for
something that's going to put him away for a long time just running the website
and allowing people
a portal where they can do this and sell things is not quite good enough but if
you can get a guy to
literally call for murder not once but twice then you've really got him locked
up
we don't know though did he deny that he called those well and not only not
only did he deny it
but um what happened was so so to back up a step basically the the corrupt cop
you know in the movie
the corrupt cop at a certain point sets out to bust Ross and then at a certain
point he's like
kind of getting cock blocked by his superiors and whatever and so he's he says
okay I'm gonna rip this
kid off instead if I can't bust him I'm gonna steal the money and I'm gonna use
it for my own purposes
but what ends up happening is and all of that information by the way the the
fake murder of his
employee and the photographs that were taken of it all of that stuff is true
that's all in the real
story and as we're shooting the movie we have access to the actual faked murder
photos where
like what does it look like it looks like available online can we see it yeah
it's available online oh
we need to see that right now see if you can find the curtis clark green uh
murder photos fake murder
photos what was his uh online name chronic pain appropriately enough did he
look like that guy the
fact he does and i love that that actor is amazing he was in um eastwood put
him in um richard jewell
and he was in spike lee's last movie um he's just he's one of those guys pray
richard jewell yeah he
played richard jewell and he's fantastic really good i mean he seemed like the
quintessential internet
couch monster you know working with that guy was so fun you know because like
again we had the you
know we had information about the real guy and what happened was when that guy
gets busted when chronic
pain gets busted in this article it said he had a chihuahua and the chihuahuas
going batshit barking
crazy as the feds are kicking in the door or whatever and we're sitting there
and i'm thinking like
man chihuahua going batshit on set that's going to screw up the dialogue what
do we do so i'm talking
to paul and paul's like what if we give him a ferret instead and i'm like ferret
dude let's go ferret
you know and then the other the other brilliant thing that paul did was he said
you know all of this like
you know all this online chatter where it's you know you're typing on the
computer and then the
other person types back he's like what if the dude's a mumbler so he's kind of
saying this
out loud the whole time that he's talking and he starts talking to himself so
once he had the ferret
and made the guy a mumbler he had like the keys to the character yeah he nailed
it it was great
everything down to the fanny pack it was beautiful the um the so the dialogue
between
all the dialogue that you show on on screen was actually real dialogue yeah so
in the movie you
have ross calling for this guy's murder did did you struggle with that at all
if ross says he never
did that and he believed what did what was his theory well i think okay so
there's a couple of
important points one is the feds never charged him with attempted murder they
put it you know ross ended
up getting sentenced to two life sentences plus 40 years without the
possibility of parole and this
is a crazy fact which is considerably harsher than what el chapo was sentenced
to right jesus christ and
so they really you know they threw the book at this guy and buried him and yeah
offer a plea he had he
did he was offered a deal at a certain point and he turned it down because i
think it was 10 years
jesus christ kid i know and that well and here this is a crazy so this is a
crazy story so starting out
with um you know you had asked me if i had reached out to him so i reached out
to him when he was locked
up in mcc new york awaiting sentencing and then all the way through he was
hoping to you know waiting
the case was working its way through the appeals process so um and then finally
he was hoping that
trump was going to pardon him and there was a big kind of hullabaloo okay is
trump going to pardon this
and pardon him on his last day in office and he didn't and i woke and i was
sitting there watching
the news waiting to see if he would and i woke up the next day and i was like
man i'm going to look
i'm going to look it up and so i went on to the bureau of prisons website and i
typed in ross's
name and it comes up you know tucson penitentiary and then it said release date
colon life and it just
like it hit me you know this kid's 36 years old he's 10 years younger than i am
and just staring down
the barrel of that and so i sat down even though the movie's you know coming
out or whatever at the time
and i decide you know what i owe this guy and some fun like just human being
man to man so i write him
a letter and i said listen man i've made this movie and this is my portrait of
you and my portrait of
your story and of silk road um and it's you know it's coming out into the world
but if you ever want
to tell your version of the story in any form or fashion you want to do it as a
rolling stone interview
you want to do it as a documentary you want to do it any way you want you tell
me and i will be there
in person to sit down with you because i do feel like there's some kind of i
don't know i guess like
spiritual contract between me and him like when you enter into a story like
this you're you're in
somebody else's life in a real way yeah it we it's almost like we do need to
hear his version of it
right and we don't we just and especially when you're dealing with lawyers in a
court case where
it's you know they're withholding some testimony if they think it'd be
detrimental to his case or
you know once all said and done i wonder why trump didn't pardon him
i don't know and then who knows you know the way it was reported that um he was
closely considering
it um but in the kind of last days of the you know chaotic into the
administration or whatever it
didn't happen but i was i was you know because no matter what you think of ross's
politics or what
he did as a uh you know or silk road even there is this thing where like i'm a
believer in second
chances man you know i've screwed up a million things in my lifetime and um and
i feel like
somebody like that hopefully has something to give the world you know and isn't
thrown away it's just
crazy that they were offering him 10 years and instead they gave him two life
sentences plus 40 years
with no possibility of parole like why you know there's this there's such a
disparity well it's i think in
some way or another it was like this changed the drug war right it changed the
way the drug game
happened and it changed the way the drug war was fought suddenly it's like it's
almost an existential
threat to the drug war when it's not by busts and hand to hand and all the
street stuff that we've seen
you know since you know nixon unleashes dea you know in 73 or whatever the year
is suddenly it's
wait a minute all happening online anonymous dhl usps people are delivering it
nobody even knows that
they're carrying it so it was like it was an existential threat to the u.s
government to the
dea to the drug war and so he got the book thrown at him crazy so what was the
motivation for offering
him 10 years as a plea you know i don't know and and i wonder you know looking
back on it it's always
kind of hindsight is 20 20 but he had been beating the system for a long time
right he was like one
dude with a laptop that unleashed this thing that kind of metastasized and went
over the whole world
and um and he was winning for a while he was ahead of the feds he was ahead of
the u.s attorney's
office he had chuck schumer there you know calling for his head and yet he
continued to kind of game
the system and beat him by just being nimble and being able to throw his laptop
in his backpack and
roll on to the next location so maybe you know maybe he thought he'd be able to
continue beating the
system i don't know god just i mean i just he'd be out he'd be out he'd be out
he'd be out now full 10
years later well and the crazy thing you know tweeted this two hours ago kind
of convenient i put silk
road on the top sorry on the tour network about 10 years ago i've been thinking
about what was going
through the mind of my 26 year old self back then in 2011 so much has changed
if only i could turn back
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